An issue committee called Conservatives for Yes on National Popular Vote is running ads in Colorado to persuade Republicans to support their effort to change the way the U.S. elects presidents. “We are a group of conservatives … from both Colorado and from across the country who believe that the candidate who gets the most […]
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Colorado’s Jason Crow launches effort to boost police accountability, federal misconduct investigations
A Democratic congressman from Colorado introduced a bill Thursday that seeks to gather racial policing data from across the nation, create a federal task force to investigate local law enforcement misconduct and provide financial incentives to agencies that implement pilot programs to reduce wrongdoing. “This should have happened a long time ago,” said U.S. Rep. […]
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Texas attorney general helped donor fight virus lockout in Gunnison County
By Paul J. Weber and Jake Bleiberg, The Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — When a small county in the Colorado mountains banished everyone but locals to blunt the spread of the coronavirus, an unlikely outsider raised a fuss: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who called it an affront to Texans who own property there and […]
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It’s unclear if Colorado counties can legally evict visitors to slow coronavirus. But one is doing it anyway.
In the midst of a pandemic that has bashed Gunnison County with a sledgehammer of illness, county officials are now facing a Constitutional furor over the rights of second homeowners during a public health crisis. The debate erupted when Gunnison County took the unusual step on April 3 of ordering the owners of around 4,000 […]